Typewriting machine



Feb. 3. 1925.

D. T.' GLACKIN TYPEWRITING MACHINE Filed Dec. 10, 1919 1 a citizen of the United States,resi

is then severed by ?atented am, 1925.

DANIEL '1'. GLAGKIN, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, AssIeNon T0 unnnawoon I TYPEWRITEB COMPANY, or new YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

T'YIPEWRITING MACHINE.

Application filed December 1o, 191a. Serial no. 343,784.

Toall whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL T. GLAOKI v, 1n Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Typewriting Machine s, of .which the following is a. specifiEation.

. This invention relates toithe class of typewriting machines illustrated in the patent to Wernery & Smith, ,N0. 1,132,055, dated March 16,. 1915, in which a web, which is fan-folded longitudinally, is led through a typewriting machine, so that the outer plythereof may receive the ink-ribbon impressions, while the'inner plies receive carbon duplicates of said impressions.

.After the printing on a given section of the web has been completed, the platen is raised to enable the work to be straightened out and drawn forward into engagement with the leading-edge gage, and the carbons to be retracted from the written portions 01 the web. The advanced portion of thework v bringmg it into engagement with a knife.

The main object of the present inventionis to provide simple and eflicient means whereby the advantages of using a fan-fold web may be preserved, while at the same time the sheets or lies taken from the machine ma be of different le he, a result which it as been found desira le to attain. A more particular object of the present invention is to provide means to produce an ink-ribbon copy upon a WOl'k-S'llGBtSBCt-lOII or form of greater length than the carbon copy or copies and having this increased length at its bottom mar in, and to do this at the time of drawing orward all of the straightened-out webs when the platen has been raised or displaced to release the webs to permit such drawing forward of the released and straightened-out webs.

In the preferred form of carrying out my invention, provision is made of means for feeding around the platen a fan-folded web and a separate outer sheet or web with suitable carbon sheets interleaved therebetween, and. provision may also be made whereby the portion of the work extending around the platen may be released and straightened to enable the work to be drawn forward with reference to the platen. Provision may also be made of a leading-end. gage and a gripsaid clip and its su port.

After releasing t ework, the fan-fold web may be grasped between the first and second gers, and the single sheet or web between the thumb and first finger of one of the operators hands, both of the webs being then drawn forward until the fanfold web is gripped by said spring clip, the fanvfold web then being released from the hand of the operator, and the single webadvanced until it engages with the outer gage. The carbons having been retracted, the "single sheet: is severed by drawin it against a knife, and the fan-fold web is t en withdrawn from the gripping device and severed in the same manner, or if desired both webs may be severed at the same time.

If desired, the mechanism may be arranged to accommodate, in) place of the single web, aplurality of webs or a fan-fold web. Corresponding substitutions may also be made for the fan-fold web.

It will be understood the headings on all of the webs or plies will be of the same size. and that the different lengths of severed webs or plies obtained by the mechanism of tom margins.

Other features and advantages will hereinafter appear.

In the accompanying drawings,--

Figure 1 is a fragmentary perspective view of a fan-folded typewriting machine of the type disclosed in said Wernery & Smith patent, but modified to carry out the present improvements in one form, the arts being shown in the positions assumed when the platen is lifted to permit release of the work.

Figure 2 is a View illustrating the method of gaging the work, the work having reached the inner gage, with the fan-fold web drawn illito position to be gripped by the spring 0 1p.

Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 2, but showing the operation of gaging the single web after the fan-fold web has been engaged by the spring clip. A

this invention results from varying the hotholds said spring In addition to the fan-fold web 9, a single Figure 4 is a perspective view, showing in detail the guide or gage support, the spring clip and the leading-end gage with which the spring cli is associated and which lip on the gage support.

web is used, and both webs with interleaved carbons 11 are led around the platen 12 in such relationship to each other that the ink-ribbon copy will be made upon the single web 10 and carbon copies will be made upon the plies of the fan-fold web 9. The sub-carriage 13, which is the same as that employed in said Wernery & Smith patent for retracting carbons 11 between the plies of the fan-fold web when desired, is provided with an extra carbon which lies between the fan-fold web 9 and the single web and will be shifted with the carbons in terleaved in the fan-fold web.

The platen 12 of the machine herein illustrated, like that shown in the Wernery & Smith patent, is journaled by an axle 14 in the swing frame comprising ends 15, which are journaled on a shaft 16, supported in a main platen-frame 16. The platen axle is geared to the line-space wheel 17 by pinion 18 fast on the axle 14 and meshing with a pinion 19 fast on the shaft 16, the latter pinion also meshing with a pinion 20 which is fast to the shaft 21 of the line-space wheel 17. The platen 12 is held against the feedi-olls 22 and 23 by means of a handle 24 on the swing frame caught by the usual pivoted I hook 255. The typist may swing the swing frame up by pushm the hook 25 rearwardly to release the hand e and then drawing on the handle, with the result that the platen will swingup until the webs 9 andlO drawn along the sub-carriage 13 may be stretched straight forwardly under the platen.

Before insertion of the fan-fold web 9 and the single web 10, the feed-rolls 22 and 23 may be released by the usual feed-roll release mechanism, illustrated more fully in said patent to Wernery & Smith, the connection between thehandle 24; and the hook shelf 27, which may be fixedly secured to the ends 15 of the swing frame. A. bar or guide 28 forms 'an extension of the shelf 27, to swing forwardly and downwardly therewith to a'substantially horizontal position, and is provided with an adjustable end gage .29, which y be secured to the bar 28 at any desired point by means of a clamping screw 30.

' anaemic In addition to end gage 29, provision is made of a second end gage 31 held in adjusted position on the bar 28 by means of a clam ing screw 32. End gage 31 comprises a b y portion 33 and portions 34 preferably perpendicular thereto, each of said end portions 34 being provided with an opening 35 of sulficient size to receive the bar 28 and also a leaf spring 36 placed thereon. The leaf spring 36 may be connected with said gage 31 to move therewith by means of lugs 37 and 38 spaced apart so as to engage portions 3% of the end gage 31on their outer sides. The end gage 31 and leaf spring 36 may be assembled on bar 28 by inserting the end ofleaf spring 36 in openings 35, Figure 4, and movin said spring into position to present said figs 37 and 38in engagement with the'outer sides of portions 34 of end gage 31.- The'bar 28 may then be insert@ in openings 35, and the leaf spring 36 thus secured, by meanslof the screw 32, to end gage 31 to move therewith. The leaf spring 36 is arched outwardly from bar 28 in the proper direction to receive beneath it work advanced to end gage 31, and will grip and holdwork drawn between .it and the bar 28. 1

When thectypewriting or printing on one bill or piece of work has been completed, the leading ends of the webs '9 and 10 will usually lie in an intermediate position between said end gage 31 and the printing line.

The handle 24 may now be released by lifting the-latch 25 and then swung forward to lift the platen from its normal depressed web-holding printing position to its raised web-releasing position, and concomitantly to swing the paper-shelf 27 and gage-carrying guide-bar 28 from the normallj upstanding to the forward substantially horizontal position, the two positions of the platen 12 and guide-bar 28 being indicated diagraatically in Figure 2. The paper-shelf or shield 27 and the gage-carrying bar 28 will now be substantially horizontal and approximately in line. with the portions of the webs behind the platen, The webs will thus be released,

by. the platen 12 and may be straightened to enable the same to be pulled forwardand gaged, being thereby re sitioned relatively to each other and to t e retractw carbon sheets 11.

' llVhen the handle 24: is swung forwardly,

the leading ends of the webs are grasped by. the opertor and drawn forwardly. In view.

ofthe fact that the webs are to be drawn across the knife 26 to be severed, it will be necessary to retractthe carbons, which may be efiected byany suitable, means, such, for

example, as thatlshownfin said'W'ernery it Smith patent. Flln order to carry; out the purpose of the present inVtntiOn, it is neci essary to ull forward the fanfold web to en gage 31, in 'jso'deing to.draw;

it under leafspring36, thereby efiecting a clamping or gripping of the fan-fold web in this position. The single 'web 10 will then be drawn farther forward until it engages'the end gage 29. It should be noted that the portion of end gage 29, with which the web 10 is brought into engagement, projects farther from bar 28 than either end' gage 31 or leaf spring 36, and that work may therefore be drawn forward into engagement with end gage 29 without inter ference by either end gage 31 or leaf spring 36.

An important advantage of this invention consists in the possibility of manipulating the webs, for the purpose described, by the use of one hand onlyfTh'i's may be done by grasping the single Web 10 between the thumb and forefinger, and the fan-fold web 9 between the forefinger and the second finger, drawing both webs forward to bring the fan-fold web between the leaf spring 36 andthe bar 28 to gripped and held thereby, and then releasing the fan-fold web from the fingers and-drawing the single web, to the position shown in Figure 3. It is to be noted that the manner of manipulating the drawn forward and separately gaged they webs provided for by the present invention, results in producing a wider bottom margin of any desired extent on the ink-ribbon copy at the single operation of drawing forward .and aging the released webs, 1 which are 'stretc ed substantially straight forwardly beneath the raised or displaced platen 12.

1 Also it-is to be noted as of importance that,

when the webs 9 and 1 0 are thus drawn for- Ward and gaged against the respective gages 31 and 29, these webs are thereby positioned relatively to the retracted carbons 11, which have been moved back by the carbon carria e or sub-carriage 13 in the usual way; an also when the webs 9 and 10. are thus are brought to the correct position for severing or tearin off the typed set of worksheets by the finife 26 after the restoring of the platen 12 to its normal or typing position, while at the same time the next succeeding set of work-sheet sections or forms on the webs 9 and 10 will be brought tothe correct position for the typing to proceed g thereon.- 1 v The platen-displacement or swing frame ma then be restored to its normal position,

which will bring the platen from the upper position shown in Figure 2 to the lower position there indicated by the showing of the gage 'car ing bar 28in broken-lines. 'I he single we may then ,be severed b drawing it over knife 26, and the fan-fol web may then be withdrawn from the gripping device, of which leaf spring 36 forms apart, and'drawn across the knife 26, or if desired both webs 9 and 10 may be severed at the same time. The operator may then pd was? height t web 'in t is to typewrite or print another pieceof work, the work-sheet sections or forms of which have been brought forward to the typing position by the gaging of the leading edges of the previously typed work-sheet sections or forms, as hereinbefore described.

Variations may be resorted to within the scope of the invention, and portions of the improvements may be used without others. lHaving thus described my invention, I 0 mm:

'1. In a typewriting machine, a platen, a

carriage therefor, and means for collating work-webs comprising-a narrow bar or staff carried by the carriage at the delivery side of the platen, a leading-edge gage upon the bar for gaging the inner web, a flaring guide co-operating with the gage for intercepting the leading edge of the inner web, and a second gage on the bar at a measured distance beyond. the first gage and of greater I an the first gage for gaging the outer web.

2. In a typewriting machine of the continuous billin or fan-fold ,ty e, in combination, a revolub e platen, a disp aceable swingframe in which the platen is mounted to swing forwardly to provide for the straightening out and drawing forward of workwebs, an adjustable inner leading-edge gage at the delivery side of the platen and carried by the swing-frame for gaging the leading edge of the inner one of said straightenedout webs, a sheet-gripping device having a fiaring mouth carried by said gage and constructed and arranged to intercept the leading edge of the inner web as 1t is drawn vforward, to guide the leading edge of said web into engagement with said gage and to yieldingl grip the leading margin of the aged position, and an adjustable seoond ceding-edge gage beyond the first for gaging longer work-sheet sections or forms on the outer one of said webs.

3. In a typewriting machine, a revoluble platen, a ga e-carrying bar at the delivery side of the (p aten, a leading-edge age carried by an adjustable alon said bar for ga ing the leading edge 0 .a Work-web, an a sheet-gripping device carried by said age and constructed and arranged to intercept the leading edge of the work-web as it is drawn forward,to guide the leading edge of said web into engagement with said gage, and to yieldingly grip the leading margin of said web to retain it in its gaged posiwhile in straightened condition, cemprising a gage-carrying bar swingable forwardl'y from an upstanding to a substantially horizontal position at the displacement of inner first-gaged web, and a web-severingknife displaceable with the platen and adjacent the front thereof-for severing said separately-gaged webs at a single operation.

5. In a t pewriting machine of the' continuous billing or fan-fold type, in combination, -.a revoluble platen, means to guide superposed webs to and around beneath the J platen, means for'displacing the platen to provide for the straightening out and drawmg forward of said webs, a gage-carryingbar at the delivery side of the platen and swingable forwardly from an upstanding to a su stantially horizontal position at the displacement of the platen, an inner leadingedge gage projecting forwardly from and adw'stably'fixed upon said bar for gaging the leading edge of the inner one of said webs when drawn forward, a sheet-gri ping device carried by saidgage having a aring mouth opening toward the platen, to receive memos and grip said inner web as it is drawn for ward against the leading-edge gage, and a second leading-edge gage, of greater height than the first,

rojecting forwardly from and adjustable a ong said bar outward from said inner leading-edge gage for separately gaging the leading edge of another of said webs.

'6. In a typewriting machine, in combination, a revoluble platen, a guide extending from the delivery side of said platen, an end gage embracing said guide, a clamping screw mounted in said end gage to" press against said guide, to draw the opposite portion of said gage against said guide, and a leaf spring inserted between the guide and the portion of said gage opposite said screw,

said leaf spring being effective to hold inposition on said guide, work drawn against" said end gage. v

7 In a typewriting machine, in combina-- tion, a guide along which work ma be drawn, a leading-end gage having a body portion and two ears odset therefrom, provided with openings to receive said guide, a leaf spring inserted in said openings opposite the body portion of said gage, lugs projecting from said leaf spring, so as to engage said ears on opposite sides, to prevent movement of said leaf spring other than wigh said end gage, and means to clamp the en age and the leaf spring in adjusted position on said guide.

1 FDANIEL 'r. GLAOKIN. Witnesses:

Y W. S'rL,

ROBERT MoCLnAN. 

